This is my thought about a lot of gen AI applications. You let ChatGPT write your wedding vows? Your college essay? Your job application? You clearly don't actually want to get married / graduated / hired. Have you considered maybe trying to find happiness somewhere else?

There's only 25 days left to raise the money needed to Save Leicestershire’s Bronze Age Torc - please donate if you can. Keeping objects like that in small regional museums is vital for community heritage. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-save-...

Please support the petition against the planned #closure of #Archaeology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Archaeology has been a part of Humboldt-Universität academic tradition for almost 200 years, so closing it would break a long-standing research tradition weact.campact.de/petitions/sc...

Only watched the first episode so far, but this is an absolute gem.

Please donate if you can. Lest keep these objects in museums where everyone can enjoy them and learn from them

This is an important find. Please help if you can. #Archaeology 🏺

If you can, please help a Bronze Age gold torc find its way into a local museum for the enjoyment of everyone rather than ending up at the hands of private collectors www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-save-...

For fans of walking and classic cinema, check out the new episode from Film Footprints on "Withail and I'. Film trivia, lovely countryside, and naughty dog action aplenty. youtu.be/YyDo-unSkbo?...

"Epistemological pollution" is the best description I've read of the consequences of this phenomenon. Tracing the social half-life of a zombie citation codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2026/01/30/t...

A bit of FREE ancient Greek learning does wonders for disrupting doom scrolling

And rounding off with our book reviews, we hear about recent publications relating to Minoan zoomorphic culture, and the archaeology of Roman Portugal in its western Mediterranean context: doi.org/10.1017/eaa.... and doi.org/10.1017/eaa....

Deadline fast approaching! 6 Feb 26. BADA summer program. Participants spend 10 days in London, 10 in Greece,+ a final residency in Oxford with the APGRD. For students & theatre practitioners at various stages of their careers. www.bada.org.uk/study/greek-... #bada #greektheatre #classics #drama

What this prune desperately wants to say is ‘people who are not white’. And as this interview clip demonstrates, any amount of data from credible sources won’t be able to shift this depth of very British racism. Because ideology over truth, right?

The move in recent years for a number of UK universities to do this is disgusting and unjust. Sheffield management isn’t alone, but they are a disgrace. Only a leadership team that has utter contempt for their staff & doesn’t care a jot about ongoing relations and morale would do this.

Well that’s me locked out. No pay for the foreseeable future, all because I refuse to reschedule lost teaching, for which I have already lost pay as part of the strike. Please donate to support @sheffielducu.bsky.social members like me at www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...

Not for the first time, it looks like Channel 4 just handed the keys to their socials to an evil genius:

So, if you are an @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social (EAA) member from 2025-2026, you received yesterday your email for the per-rollam vote of the past Special Meeting and the documentation attached to it… if you still doubt what to vote, please read all the documents. My short digest:

This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis. He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden. (After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)

Orson Welles Narrates an Animated Parable About How Xenophobia & Greed Will Put America Into Decline (1971)

Πόσα ζώα θανατώθηκαν τσάμπα, είναι ασύλληπτο για να σκεπάσουν την απάτη του #ΟΠΕΚΕΠΕ

Incredibly, no-one on Nigel Farage’s team has got round to deleting this post. It’s still live as Robert Jenrick gives his big defection speech.

Nadhim Zahawi would be frightened to live in a country run by Nigel Farage. Zahawi has deleted it, but it is too late.

To say that the meeting yesterday failed to alleviate our legitimate concerns is an understatement. If anything, I was more concerned and disturbed by such behaviour. The EAA needs to take serious action to regain the confidence of its members.

To say this meeting failed to alleviate our concerns is an understatement. If anything, I felt more concerned and disturbed by such behaviour. The EAA needs to take serious and quick action to restore confidence in its members.

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula My favourite

ladies, it's ok because only paying subscribers can make/distribute deepfake porn of you and your children now www.ft.com/content/c24d...

I #resist in 2026. When I wrote THE INTERMEDIARIES, I learned how #LGBTQ and #women and #minorities fought Nazis. SO bleak, but they kept going and hoping and I want to as well. Today, this is how #Iresist. I will gift copies/chapters. History shouldn't depend on capitalism to be shared. Contact me

Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

🚨Urgent‼️ The EAA has doxxed members who have been working to reestablish justice, democracy and accountability in the association. This is a chilling move. We must take action. ALL EAA MEMBERS OUT FOR THE SPECIAL MEETING THIS FRIDAY JAN 9TH! #EAAforDemocracy

for the Special Meeting agenda and to sign in- use this link: www.e-a-a.org/EAA/News___P...

THIS WHOLE THREAD!

And this is exactly the reason why there should be a professional ethics framework agreed with urgency for #gen-AI, in particular photo-realistic stuff : archaeologists and heritage orgs who use it for general outreach & #SciComm are contributing to this problem.

For the love of anything that is holy, how is it possible (even for the Tories!) to argue against rejoining #Erasmus? Giving young people the opportunity to travel, study, live abroad, make friends, learn stuff, expand horizons? No, thank you, none of this nonsense for us 🤦🙄

Help! Banbury Museum has been told that Cherwell District Council is cancelling ALL of its core funding. There is a very tight deadline - Friday 19th December - to tell the Council what you think. Please respond to the consultation and share this post www.banburymuseum.org/news/no-fund...

Archaeologists! Would you like to spend time in beautiful Athens talking about techniques and how they shape human lives? Session 153 #EAA2026 is for you! FROM CRAFTS TO TECHNICAL LINEAGES: RETHINKING THE ROLE OF TECHNIQUES IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOURSE. More info: www.academia.edu/145419477/Se...

Spotted on Southwold pier: “He who controls the Past controls the Future. He who controls the Present controls the Past.” George Orwell

📻 Listen out for Inside Science on BBC Radio 4 at 16.30 today where I'll be talking to Tom Whipple about this new find!

I bet some women were also involved 🙄 Do better @theguardian.com ! www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

I grew up in the 70s and 80s. If you weren't there, just a little clarification on that Spectator piece. Literally, NOBODY admired Hitler. Apart from nazis. Hope that helps.

Labour continuing to miss the point...

Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research? We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections. Find out more: collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/

I challenge you to listen to Tim Montgomerie’s defence of Nigel Farage on Radio 4 with a straight face

That these are Labour policies blows my mind. Can they sink any lower?

#antireport Εδώ #Πολυτεχνείο / Το έγχρωμο φιλμ που κατέγραψε κρυφά την εξέγερση μέσα από δωμάτιο του ξενοδοχείου Ακροπόλ. The Athens Polytechnic uprising occurred in November 1973 as a massive student demonstration against the Greek military junta of 1967-74. youtu.be/F2qh1-mojgU?...

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

Left: Donald Trump’s Jan 6th quote, as presented in the dossier that brought down two BBC bosses Right: What Donald Trump actually said. Full story in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...

🧵On our revelations today about the BBC Coup and the Prescott Dossier. The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12

ICYMI yesterday afternoon a fantastic new digital resource pulling together data on the Roman road network has just launched. Explore at: